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The president was visiting NASA headquarters and stopped to talk to a
man who was holding a mop. “And what do you do?” he asked. The man, a
janitor, replied, “I’m helping to put a man on the moon, sir.”
-- The little book of leadership
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button
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Training research shows that if you get speed now you can get quality
later. But if you don't get speed you will never get quality in the long
run.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.
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Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying
that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
-- Alanna
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In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. But in
practice, there is.
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Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some
of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic
engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the
driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating
rationalizations and excuses for our behavior.
-- Paul Buchheit
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Acknowledging the negative doesn't mean sniveling [whining, complaining]; it
means facing the truth and then moving on.
-- George Leonard, Mastery.
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A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is
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When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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The only thing a man should ever be 100% convinced of is his own
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The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic.
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it.
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Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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A person won't become proficient at something until he or she has done
it many times. In other words., if you want someone to be really good at
building a software system, he or she will have to have built 10 or more
systems of that type.
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The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak.
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Omit needless words.
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Write it properly first. It's easier to make a correct program fast,
than to make a fast program correct.
-- http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/
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The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you get a round one.
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You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you
will always be a Terrible Programmer.
You will remain a Great Programmer for only as long as you acknowledge
that you are still a Terrible Programmer.
-- Marc (http://kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com/)
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Remember that you are humans in the first place and only after that
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To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.
-- Modern zen Poem
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To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is
half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to
be.
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C++ is like teenage sex: Everybody is talking about it all the time,
only few are really doing it.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be
regarded as a criminal offense.
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Chance favors the prepared mind.
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For complex systems, the compiler and development environment need to be
in the same language that its supporting. It's the only way to grow
code.
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You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can
handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then
handle five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more
ease, more mastery and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.
-- Pablo Picasso
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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